Day 10
Well, it's before 9AM and Rico's still sleeping, so I wanted to get this post out this morning before we leave because I don't think we'll have time later today since the US game doesn't start until 9PM. It's going to be a long, but hopefully a winning, day.
Here is a travel log of our driving today:
We are headed from our apartment in Weimar to Kaiserslautern. This is where Ramstein, the US military base is located. Reading this article, it is interesting to see just how much a soccer game can mean to so many people...and particularly a WIN! On our way over here, I was listening to some commentary on what the World Cup means to some of the participating countries. For example, we attended the Portugal-Angola match, which was a pretty fun match to watch. However, Angola was once under Portugese rule - now they are pitted against each other in the biggest sporting event in the world. Also, the Ivory Coast is a team that has made it for the first time in their history. I also learned that there is a huge civil war being waged in that country right now, but the entire country has pretty much called a halt to the war just so that the country can be united in supporting the soccer team. So when I see the ESPN ad with Bono's voice explaining how a ball and a game can stop a war, it isn't too far from the truth!
While in K-town (the US military's nickname for Kaiserslautern), we'll be heading to a local pub to soak up the match with fellow Americans because we don't have tickets to the match, unfortunately. BUUUUT, I did read somewhere where someone who's going to be at the pub wanted anyone's phone number who will be at the game so that we as a group at the pub can call the cell phone and sing "America the Beautiful" along with everyone at the game in hopes that all our voices coming through the phone might be enough to help our players on the pitch. May sound corney, but there were so many US fans shut out of tickets for this game that everyone's trying anything they can to help out our team. It's going to be a fun atmosphere tonight, and I'm really looking forward to it. As Rico said, tonight is the first night of our whirlwind tour of Germany...as of right now, here's our schedule according to the matches we have tickets to:
June 17 - Kaiserslautern - US-Italy (no tickets YET)
June 18 - Leipzig - France-S. Korea
June 19 - Hamburg - Saudi Arabia-Ukraine
June 20 - Hanover - Poland-Costa Rica
June 21 - Frankfurt - Argentina-Netherlands
June 22 - Nuremberg - US-Ghana
June 23 - Kaiserslautern - Spain-Saudi Arabia
Here's what our week ahead is going to look like:
The red is where we have been so far, the blue is where we will be going this week, and the green is where we will be going in the future (Stuttgart and Dortmund are still up in the air becuase we don't have tickets to these stadia yet).
I think that it's pretty safe to say that we'll be seeing pretty much ALL of Germany on this trip!
Cheers,
Rocco
Here is a travel log of our driving today:
We are headed from our apartment in Weimar to Kaiserslautern. This is where Ramstein, the US military base is located. Reading this article, it is interesting to see just how much a soccer game can mean to so many people...and particularly a WIN! On our way over here, I was listening to some commentary on what the World Cup means to some of the participating countries. For example, we attended the Portugal-Angola match, which was a pretty fun match to watch. However, Angola was once under Portugese rule - now they are pitted against each other in the biggest sporting event in the world. Also, the Ivory Coast is a team that has made it for the first time in their history. I also learned that there is a huge civil war being waged in that country right now, but the entire country has pretty much called a halt to the war just so that the country can be united in supporting the soccer team. So when I see the ESPN ad with Bono's voice explaining how a ball and a game can stop a war, it isn't too far from the truth!
While in K-town (the US military's nickname for Kaiserslautern), we'll be heading to a local pub to soak up the match with fellow Americans because we don't have tickets to the match, unfortunately. BUUUUT, I did read somewhere where someone who's going to be at the pub wanted anyone's phone number who will be at the game so that we as a group at the pub can call the cell phone and sing "America the Beautiful" along with everyone at the game in hopes that all our voices coming through the phone might be enough to help our players on the pitch. May sound corney, but there were so many US fans shut out of tickets for this game that everyone's trying anything they can to help out our team. It's going to be a fun atmosphere tonight, and I'm really looking forward to it. As Rico said, tonight is the first night of our whirlwind tour of Germany...as of right now, here's our schedule according to the matches we have tickets to:
June 17 - Kaiserslautern - US-Italy (no tickets YET)
June 18 - Leipzig - France-S. Korea
June 19 - Hamburg - Saudi Arabia-Ukraine
June 20 - Hanover - Poland-Costa Rica
June 21 - Frankfurt - Argentina-Netherlands
June 22 - Nuremberg - US-Ghana
June 23 - Kaiserslautern - Spain-Saudi Arabia
Here's what our week ahead is going to look like:
The red is where we have been so far, the blue is where we will be going this week, and the green is where we will be going in the future (Stuttgart and Dortmund are still up in the air becuase we don't have tickets to these stadia yet).
I think that it's pretty safe to say that we'll be seeing pretty much ALL of Germany on this trip!
Cheers,
Rocco
posted by Rocco at 12:00 AM
1 Comments:
Whew! What a lot of travel. The comments about the truce to play a match and singing the Nat'l Anthem over the cell phone were very touching.
Your blog really makes me feel like I'm there. Thanks!
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